Among adults, women are more likely to be on psychiatric medicine. Among children, boys are more likely to be on psychiatric medicine.
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This is rather obviously due to the female preference for psychiatric medicine being imposed on their sons/students.
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Boys are rather famously not all that into school, as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn will attest.
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This is, again obviously, due to elementary schools being run primarily by women. Very nice and hard-working women, of course, but nevertheless women, and so the overall atmosphere tends to be more to the liking of female students than male.
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Most of the psychiatric medicine use among little boys is rather blatantly to make them sit still and behave at school, and we've now even documented horrible things like the youngest students in the class being more likely to be put on ADD medicine than the older stuents
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What would a male-oriented elementary school look like?
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I remember reading about how tripling recess time cut Ritalin prescription
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